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Subject: Re: Minix on a 486 in 2o24??? Date: Sun Mar 10 2024 05:29 am
From: anthk To: paulie420

On 2024-02-19, paulie420 <BEERS20!paulie420@vert.synchro.net> wrote:
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> https://youtu.be/y3zlb7SrI0I?si=SnoZWK9vfPOFy8L3
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> TechHeart [me!] posted another video this weekend... still enjoying the Dolch 
PAC-60 486/DX66 machine and MS-DOS completely packed with softwarez... so, we ta
ke a left turn and jimmy Minix 2.0.4 on the machine. It was fun, and interesting
 to [finally] experience Minux - the OS designed by Andrew Tenenbaum only b/c AT
&T was breathing down his, and other professors, necks telling them they couldn'
t continue teaching Unix to students... without Minux, Linus may have never gott
en the bug to develop Linux - what would the world be like built on top of FreeB
SD rather than Linux??? We'll never know - because of all these pioneers...
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> For now, watch an amateur figure out how to finesse the OS onto hardware that 
most humans have forgotten about - but is still teaching me in 2024. Come along,
 if yer ok with YT...
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> https://youtu.be/y3zlb7SrI0I?si=SnoZWK9vfPOFy8L3
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>
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>|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
>|08.........

Some guy built a homebrew 4 mhz CPU with TTL's running Minix 2.

telnet to magic-1.org as guest:magic

specs:

http://www.homebrewcpu.com/

I already got to run frotz with a downloaded calypso.z3 
(libre/free licensed text adventure) I uploaded. It 
runs great.

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